Hoop for milk-cans.



No. mano. Pat-@med neu. 23, |902,

B. T. WOOD.

HDDP FDR MILK SANS.

(Application filed' Jan. 21, 1902.)

(NDHOdel.)

LA Il y l2) NU@ f w+ wir j i UNITED STAT-ns PATENT Ormea.

BERTINI T. WOOD, OF BERLIN, WISCONSIN.

HOOP FOR lVlLK-CANS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 716,800, dated December 23, 1902.

Application iiled January 2l, 1902. Serial No. 90,709. (No model.)

T @ZZ wiz/0771, it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTINI T. Woon, a citizen of the United States, residingat Berlin, in the county of Green Lake and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Hoop for Milk-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cans such as are used for holding and shipping milk and similar products; and it has forits object to provide as an article of manufacture a bottom or base hoop for such cans which will be cheap of manufacture and which may be easily applied and will be most effective in protecting the bottom of the can during the rough treatment to which it is subjected.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hoop made from asingle strip of sheet metal and wherein the elements will be so v tral section taken through the hoop and the lower portion of the can engaged therewith.

Referring now to the drawings, the hoop consists of a strip 5, of sheet metal, having an outwardly-directed bead 6 at one edge thereof, this strip having its ends connected, as shown. The metal of the lower portion of the hoop remote from the bead is bent inwardly and-upwardly to lie against the inner face of the hoop, as shown at 7, and the upper portion of thisfinwardly and upwardly bent part 7 is bent in the direction of the center of the hoop and at right angles to form a shelf 8. In the formation of the hoop astrip of metal of suitable width is out to a length proper to make the hoop of the desired diameter, and either previous to the cutting of the 'strip or subsequentthereto, as desired, the edgevof the hoop is rolled to form the'` lbead 6, which projects outwardly of the hoop to form an annular channel or groove 9. If preferred, this bead and resultant channel may be formed by rolling the metalafter the ends thereof have been joined tovforin the hoop. The article then is inthe-form of` a lengthened band having a bead at one end, and this band is then treated with suitable dies to press the ltoform an inwardly-directed flange or shelf,

aboveV referred to. There is thus produced a sheet-metal hoop having a channel at its upper' portion and a shelf therebelow, so that the hoop may be disposed over the lower end of acan 1l, so that the bottom of the can will rest upon the flange, while the outwardly-directed bead 12, adjacent to the bottom of the can, will engage in the channel 9 to hold the hoop onto the can, and by suitably placing the rivets'that connect the ends of the hoop the channeled portion of the hoop may be sprung slightly outwardly, so that the bottom of the can may be forced into the hoop and the bead of the can engaged with the channel, the hoop returning to place to tightly impinge against the can to hold the hoop in place.

It will be understood that in practice any suitable material may be used for the hoop and any suitable proportions may be observed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

What is claimed is- An article of manufacture, a bottom. hoop for cans consisting of an endless band of sheet metal having one end bent inwardly and upwardly of the band to lie against the inner facethereofand then bent in the direction of the center'of thebandto form a supportingshelf to receive a can, the upper wportion of the band having an outwardly-directed bead and an inner resultant channel rolled' or pressed therein to receive abead on the can to which the hoop is to be attached.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ownl have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BERTINI T. WOOD.

`Witnesses: e

JAMES A. BIGGERT, D. G. Woon. 

